Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 2 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 3 | The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine and whipped up into meringue peaks . |
| 4 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 5 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 6 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 7 | Willie stopped and gazed up at them . |
| 8 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 9 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 10 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 11 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 12 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 13 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 14 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 15 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 16 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 17 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 18 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 19 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 20 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 21 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 22 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 23 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 24 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 25 | and connect up with rails as well as . |
| 26 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 27 | We now retrace our steps to Ponta do Sol and back up onto the road and continue along to Canhas . |
| 28 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 29 | LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain . |
| 30 | LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain . |